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- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 13:40:23 +1000
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- Subject: Re: English peas
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- >I also remember being careful to observe the quarantine of the little
- >boy across the street whose mother had polio. Since he couldn't go to
- >school and since nobody could come to his house, even into his yard, I
- >kept him informed of goings-on by standing on one side of the 4" curb at
- >the edge of his yard while he stood on the other side of it. When I told
- >my mother that story later, she almost fainted.
- > --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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- I'd never realised how widespread that Polio Epidemic must have been. My
- childhood playmate also contracted it which was strange because he was only
- 3 years old and I was the only other child he ever come into contact with and
- yet I didn't contract it at all.... his mother did blame me though for
- bringing it home from school and giving it to him. :-(
-
- Carolyn
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